Albert B. Cummins

Albert Baird Cummins (15 February 1850-30 July 1926) was Governor of Iowa (R) from 16 January 1902 to 24 November 1908 (succeeding Leslie M. Shaw and preceding Warren Garst) and a US Senator from 24 November 1908 to 30 July 1926 (succeeding William B. Allison and preceding David W. Stewart).

Biography
Albert Baird Cummins was born in Carmichaels, Pennsylvania in 1850, and he moved to Iowa at the age of 19, to Indiana in 1875, to Chicago, Illinois in 1875, and then back to Iowa in 1878, where he set up a law practice in Des Moines. From 1888 to 1890, he served in the Iowa State Legislature as a Republican Party member, and he served in the Republican National Committee from 1896 to 1900. Cummins then served as Governor of Iowa from 1902 to 1908 and in the US Senate from 1908 to 1926, dying in office. He marked himself as a progressive, supporting some of President Woodrow Wilson's policies during World War I.